<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,      An alligator stuffed, and other skins       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves        A beggarly account of empty boxes,         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't use the public restrooms because they weren't working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17201]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arouse the mind without resting it on anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, we're not going to let this go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49694]]></link><description><![CDATA[One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after. [One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!  Pure relics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!  Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine   Now thou art gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55412]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is tragedy - plus time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weeding is plant racism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weeding is plant racism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34548]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32613]]></link><description><![CDATA[My figure ... never felt like an asset until I started dancing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sports and we can't do anything about it. We've got to play with the players we have. What can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40668]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sports and we can't do anything about it. We've got to play with the players we have. What can you do? You have no choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62410]]></link><description><![CDATA[For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education will not (take the place of persistence); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had just no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had just no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61309]]></link><description><![CDATA[How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.  . . . .   The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket,    The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each time a student fails, the district is required to notify the parents and provide the student accelerated instruction in a setting of not more than 10 students to one teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've counted more than 20 people killed today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36781</guid></item></channel></rss>